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Quotes About Man

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service
~ Rudyard Kipling
I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that test against anyone at anytime, anywhere.
~ Russell Means
I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.
~ Samuel
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.
~ Samuel Butler
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
~ Samuel Butler
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
~ Seneca the Younger
...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
~ Seneca the Younger
I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.
~ Shelley Berman
Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
~ Sophocles
A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good
~ Sophocles
One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan and propounded by man is that man is saved alone by the grace of God; that belief in Jesus Christ alone is all that is needed for salvation
~ Spencer W. Kimball
No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.
~ Stephen Charnock
I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.
~ Steve Carell
Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.
~ Steven Pinker
The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.
~ Suzanne Curchod
Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity
~ Swami Vivekananda
The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool
~ Sydney Smith
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
~ Terence McKenna
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.
~ Thomas Hobbes
There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.
~ Thomas Paine